Between a Guac and a hard place | Mountain Biking Guacamole Mesa in Southern Utah

[@Mountain_Manu]

Love the variety of landscapes you have over there in North America. We have nice forrests and mountains in Europe, but we definitely miss some of these awesome, wide landscapes..sometimes almost looks unreal for a European. Can't wait until I can afford to come over there and ride my Mtb, I am planning for two trips, one in Colorado and one in Utah (and maybe as a bonus up to Whistlers)

[@HollyBoni]

Well, if you live somewhere in central Europe and you want to see desert landscapes, you can hop on a dirt cheap flight and go to somewhere like Morocco or Turkey (and also experience a completely different culture). It's actually about the same or even less distance if let's say you lived in New York and wanted to go to Utah. 🙂 I see these videos and sometimes I also envy the terrain in the US, but I always forget that even tho it's one country it's a pretty damn big place, and sometimes going from one state to another state is like going from one end of Europe to the other end of Europe...

[@jochemmecking3534]

@@HollyBoni this is so true, the scale ie just so mudh bugger in the states. I've heard from an American friend if mine Americans drive eight hours for just a weekend in the mountains. That's crazy to me. If I'm driging 8 hours I'm at least staying a week!

[@googlemail5045]

Not true

[@judechandler5102]

This may be the coolest title ever on youtube, Good Job

[@squishlefunke]

Alternate title - "I got friends in tight spaces"

[@motoman4533]

I just drove 8 hours from home in Tahoe to St George for 2 days of riding and I could not be more stoked on that area and to experience winter away from the snow. Thank you for the motivation good sir.

[@Persiusmo]

I'm definitely inspired to ride southern Utah. Thanks for showing us around.

[@itstaco1]

"I'm not sharing!" Loved that part!!

[@bensieber6960]

The most beautiful ride yet on this excursion. I'd have been stopping every five minutes just to soak in the beauty. And then some fantastic riding. And then more beauty. Rinse and repeat. Great video.

[@05GDF]

The message in the end ooof 💯 🙌 nice riding guys.

[@smog24]

This was my favorite trail system in Utah when I did my bike trip last year, felt like a kid in a giant play ground and I didnt want to leave. Great video to relive it.

[@michaelgoddard9089]

The last two minutes were the best Brian. I hope to be able to do it one day, and thanks for the positive energy to try and help those of us who are sitting here watching you do it. Sometimes, it just takes that little push.

[@Getoutside2day]

You two together never disappoint. Keep shredding and stay safe guys!!

[@gavindean]

So jealous, freezin ass cold and snowy here in Switzerland

[@chrishardinger3614]

Greetings from Minnesota! We rode fat bikes today at minus 8F and I was lusting for dirt!

[@doncrescas]

Go ski!

[@gavindean]

@@doncrescas the ski fields in France are all closed it's packed here in Switzerland massive ques and long wait times, it's a real covid fest...... so no thanks

[@takozamtbtrailscout7106]

"Wipe the tears off your eyes , boy!" Cracked me up! =)

[@katiealdana150]

Awesome Ride🙌 Thanks for taking us with ya...👍

[@crislabossiere6234]

It’s great watching you guys ride together. You’re both excellent ambassadors to the sport.

[@debbiegrooman5800]

I'm so glad you did Guac. My favorite Hurricane/St. George ride. I love picking your lines. It's like kayaking and skiing.

[@Tmotolite]

I like Brian when you tell the ride in winter , comes in France it's too frozen here ;-) but your video warms me up :-) thanks a lot !

[@verleastman8881]

Guacamole is a great ride. You covered most of my Favorite rides in the Saint George area. I get out there almost once a month until it heats up!!! Thanks for the memories. Great job... guys!!!

[@ChasingChevy]

Alex and Brian have such great chemistry.

[@kvmtb7101]

Love these kinds of rides! Hopefully I can try these trails out before the summer heat

[@TheMitchForrest]

I like running the quad lock phone mount so you can have trailforks running on the bars while trying not to get lost.

[@andyraven6219]

Great video as always. Stunning scenery and always awesome to see you riding with Alex.

[@raivkka4313]

Like the format, it's really helpful. I have ridden a LOT of trails that have been featured on this/these channels. When planning an MTB vacation I use this channel as research, such as Quebec!

[@iberofernandez7888]

BKXC and MTB YumYum , probably my two favourites KZbin Channels !!! Hello from Panama !!!

[@RGCastro7]

Awesome video, as usual! These colabs are spectacular. Keep up the great work, Brian.

[@DBJax]

Ha! Missed ya by a couple weeks. Great ride, very challenging. Hit this about a week ago. 2 of us arrived at the southern most end of the loop looking south off the Mesa. There was a couple taking a break. The gal that was there was riding a brand new Ibis Ripley. Found out she was 60 years old. During our chat she commented, I don’t Huck air anymore like I used too. WHAAAA!?!? Awesome chat and again great ride out there. Love the vids, keep up the good work and commentary!

[@michaelnapier4220]

What a trip. Awesome scenery in the last ride, I can feel the heat off the screen 😎

[@Bohous26]

Another great video! For a guy from Central Europe, these landscapes are amazing, especially in this dreary winter time :-)

[@TommyHuynh]

Dude its so beautiful out there, I was born in Utah and I always want to go back to ride. Glad you and Alex had a good time. Let me know when your next trip is back to SoCal

[@TheCrashingDad]

That end rant was the best! XD

[@grisz1144]

I love you both in action. Beautiful terrain and cool ride.

[@scooper72]

Just got back from St. George and found this vid to show my friends what I’d been up to. I LOLed at the end, because I a)) drove 10 hours from Santa Cruz to get there and b) biked for three days, exactly as instructed ! I rode Zen, Turtle Wall/Paradise Rim, JEM/Dead Ringer, and the Whole Guacamole.

[@bkxc]

That's awesome!!

[@williamkinzel3635]

Beautiful! Nice vid. Weather looks awesome

[@chrishorner81]

Wasn't going to ride this morning.... watched your video, then went out for a ride!!

[@matt_metcalf]

Just rode Guac and Holy Guac this morning. It was every bit as awesome as advertised

[@kevinklemm4676]

Looks like an amazing fun place! Thanks for sharing the adventures!

[@andreanicol7588]

Cool series bro. Loved seeing you and Alex ride together and your passion for adventure message at the end there. I didn’t realise you balanced between home and travel - we just see the travel. I hope you enjoy the residencies. Great idea. Great name for them! Please please please warn me when you’re going to ride up to an edge like that!!! Giving me the ‘nopes’ and second hand fear while I’m sitting in flat ground ON A COUCH 😄

[@marcsuciu3038]

Riding this tomorrow and can not wait!

[@darkman1301]

I am really enjoying these videos!

[@inkrider95]

Sick trail and scenery.. looks like a must ride....

[@ShakeNShred]

I'm not a huge mesa ride fan, but that one looks fun! And perhaps a little deadly. Great seeing you and Alex together for these last few vids, too. But seriously, Brian. Size doesn't matter...until you have dessert envy!

[@johnglynn7795]

St George and Sedona are my 2 Fav's!!! Best to you both in 2021.

[@Mugtree]

Loving these videos and your thoughts at the end 👍

[@Black_Onyx]

Loving to see u both riding. Videos are funny to watch. 😀👍🔥

[@Blake_Cherubini]

This area of Utah looks super sick! We are about a month away from traveling and mountain biking!

[@gusrallim]

Incredible scenery

[@brentatwood8915]

Old geezer mt biker that lives around there. Ride that trail a lot....very fun but usual ride it the other direction. Way jealous that you can ride mt bikes for a living but really enjoy your videos. Keep it up.

[@jakeb7884]

the Traill looks like so much fun

[@joeyvalentic4439]

If I had to show someone what mountain biking is, I’d show them this video. Perfect.

[@arch417powersports]

Southern Utah is an absolute unit.

[@patdrumm3770]

OMG your face with the dessert. hahahaha. too funny. Consider me inspired! I NEEED to plan a bike trip!!

[@Randombikekid]

2:53 “I’m going for it!”

[@letsgoridebikes]

Getting barreled in the desert! That ice cream sandwich looks almost as good as what we had at the Cannery.

[@CavemanOutdoorsMissouri]

Really enjoyed seeing you guys riding together again. I think there's more than enough trails in NW Arkansas to keep you busy for awhile.

[@herkusr01]

This whole series was amazing!! Interested to see where you go next. I'd definitely recommend the northeast kingdom area of VT if you're up in the northeast at all.

[@nofrontbrakes]

Nothing like slab riding where you have to depend on reflectors with a little dirt patches in between the rock to figure out where to go

[@knordberg]

That trail on the mesa was awesome. Had me a little nervous on some of it.

[@nmnate]

Hey Brian - come back to NM, plenty of crazy good riding that you didn't get to try out. Just gotta come out late enough in the season so you can do some high elevation stuff.

[@willbros1499]

I know you don't comment on the comments, but if you read them, you might try upping your ISO a little on your footage with the 9. it seemed like the overall brightness was a little low in several places on this one. But other than that.....looked like a blast, and it's always fun to see how your technical climbing skills are always up to the level, or beyond it, of the riders you ride with. It's not something most new riders care anything about learning, but I LOVE that stuff! Looking forward to where your adventures take you, and secretly....I hope one of them is here in NW Arkansas, and especially now that Little Rock is getting into the fray, and you've never ridden anything down in the Hot Springs area, where there are tons of trails as well.

[@perryirons1399]

So much fun! Thanks for sharing!

[@mc540flip]

“Up and at them” - ha ha I remember that Simpson’s episode!

[@anmtb3706]

Would love to see some videos of you in Canada again!

[@samsmusic2708]

Brian is probably gonna still be riding bikes when he’s 100 years old

[@TheGeoffreyDyck]

He'll dress the same too

[@davidc6032]

Another great Mesa ride in SW Utah. That cone-shaped mountain seen in many shots is an ancient volcano and the lighter rock layers high up in the distance is Zion National park. If you ride in the spring, bring some bug spray, I was overwhelmed with gnats during my ride. The bites turned into itchy little blisters that oozed all over the motel sheets the next couple of nights...gross.

[@strenkp]

Brian. We have still lockdown here. Unable to travel, I have to work and take care of my wife and 3 daughters. Is maybe hard to understand from your bubble (single, "childless", no day job), but is not easy! Oh and I ride MTB 8 000km / year and I always search for new places (close or distant). But not always is so easy ... go and ride. Sometimes other factors are stronger and I have to wait till I will be able to ride something new!

[@jacksontaylor1taylor191]

I love how his bike squeaks

[@tedecker3792]

I hear lots of squeaks and creaks when I ride also, but mostly from my knees!

[@adallegretti6876]

I have a love/hate relationship with that ride. It was BEAUTIFUL and fun, but I found trail finding pretty difficult. I didn't allow enough time for the ride and almost had to spend the night out on the mesa. I got pretty lucky I was able to follow the lights of nearby campers, and didn't fall off the mesa in the dark! Traumatic.

[@scooper72]

Holy crap! And I was grumpy because I ran out of snacks.

[@johnglynn7795]

Brian, you and Alexander should now how to enjoy a day of MTB'n. Best to you both from across the miles here in Bangkok and look forward to heading home to PHX at the end of February. Until then, keep the dirty side down. Blue skies, jg

[@thomaslane918]

Looked like you had a great time! That's one of the funnest trails in Utah. Did you notice all the petrified wood? It's all over that trail.

[@samsmusic2708]

This summer you should check out some more south eastern Michigan trails, you checked out DTE which is one of our nicer ones but there is also Brighton, island lake, and the famous Potawatomi trail

[@pulganabike1648]

What a incredible place

[@kekkorr]

Beautiful place and trails! Congratulation for your video.... from italy

[@Jballard9130]

Guac is no question my favorite trail of all time

[@stickboyjp]

You guys are great together

[@endlesscyclist1212]

Thanky you for convincing Alex to make a new video 😜

[@MTBSoja]

If you need an idea for a residency then you should try the Laguna beach area. There are a ton of trails just in that one area but then in a 10-15 mile radius there are dozens more

[@SteezyG]

I'm surprised you don't have a cycling GPS. I have a wahoo and love it. The new Roam has colour maps too.

[@JaredHoff]

You know what helps the squeaks and creaks. A super loud freehub LOL

[@jjoutdoorlife4862]

If u want a place to get an air BNB go to Tahoe CA, NV, it is amazing there tons of trails and you will never run out of them!!! Trust me

[@FoCoFlowShow]

I see what you did there... your channel jis my burrito favorito. 😎

[@PickledShark]

You’d better come to the Sedona/Flagstaff area. We can easily fill a month with great rides, as you no doubt know. The Sedona MTB Festival is being rescheduled for Nov, 12-14, which is a great time for Sedona. I’d suggest starting your month in the flagstaff region with the changing of the Aspen leaves in flagstaff, and working your way to Sedona, and ending with the festival. It would be a rad trip 👌 Even better, the northern half of The Arizona Trail is some world class bike packing, and October is perfect for it. So perhaps a week or two riding the AZT mogollon rim to the Grand Canyon, followed by a week in flagstaff, and a week or two in Sedona ending with the Festival at peak fitness. 🤯

[@andrewkelly7882]

Hey man! This place looks awesome

[@lloydmartin8547]

Looks like an amazing trail, really hope you make it to cape Town again some time, would be sweet to take a ride with you

[@GrizDrummer25]

Funny that you guys say 30 psi is high. My tires are always minimum 32psi! Great ride, though! Looks super fun :)

[@jrldude8719]

Great vid- looks like those trails were a ton of fun. Hopefully the "I'll race you to the van" didn't cost you a rear rim!

[@laxwarrior737]

First time we rode holy Guacamole when we were out for rampage we got painfully lost and ran out of daylight.... good times!

[@hoodeddragon]

I love this trail

[@wheezin_mtnbkr3576]

You guys are just making places up now, “Guacamole Mesa”. 🤣 Jk - love the channel and content.

[@Miro_K]

what a trails waaau love the scenery

[@benjaminrozier8063]

damn I'd love to go riding with you, the stoke master !

[@kentjones4119]

Awesome area to ride hope to get there sometime. The only concern I got is those after ride drinks. Where's the beer 🍺

[@nrg4285]

Alex is so hype

[@williamwatson3604]

I love how "the sampler" still says "goin' for it!" (Maybe busting your balls) from the first video I saw you guys (and Seth, I think) riding together.

[@joshuahall4834]

Watching him ride one handed while on the phone gave me so much anxiety

[@danjacobsen1366]

It's fun riding indoor along with you. Thanks! Are you still with Sarah? Ride more with her please

[@maddogmtb8009]

Starting off with a great title!✔🤙

[@nintndrew3235]

You should check out the St.Louis area

[@mtbville]

Nice riding 😀👍🔥

[@christiantalotalo1137]

I love your bike .

[@chrishorner6499]

Awesome video! I am just getting into mountain biking and have been obsessively watching all your videos. You have a great channel and feed. I was just curious as to what camera and helmet you use? Also, do you mount your camera to your chest or helmet? Thanks in advance and looking forward to continuing to watch your content! Chris